Originally Posted by paarmo
The Heathrow connection is gone and will not be returning unless BMI are given a Government subsidy to continue.
If the Government were to offer bmi a subsidy to continue, which they won't, but if they did, bmi, or rather Lufthansa, would reject it because they have more lucrative ideas for the LHR slots.
Someone suggested to me the other day that KLM will be next to go - they'll chop us and put bigger aircraft into both Newcastle and Leeds, not because they want to, but because Peel will get shirty with them when the contract comes up for renewal.
Alicante and Barcelona Girona will stop for the Winter again and I just don't think they'll return the following Summer. After the loss of London Heathrow and Dublin, we're still in a nose dive, and we may not recover from it at all - if, and it's a big if, ALC and GRO do return after next Winter, then, and only then, can we start to think about things improving.